BWF Annual Awards 2025

This award recognises innovation and the very best in design, application and ability in joinery manufacture. Judges are looking for a project that demonstrates excellence in woodworking and joinery and exceeds the usual requirements of joinery products.

This award recognises excellence in technical innovation, product development, design, manufacturing or application. The judges are looking for a product or process development that showcases or extends the opportunity and application of timber joinery by overcoming technical or process difficulties or by introducing new concepts to produce the desired joinery solution.

This award acknowledges an individual or collective effort, or initiative, which has made a notable difference to the health and safety practices and culture within a business. The judges are looking for an initiative or action that has improved safety in an organisation.

This award recognises an individual whose dedication and hard work has made a real difference to either the organisation in which they work, or to the wider woodworking and joinery community. The judges are looking for an individual who goes the ‘extra mile’ to ensure that customers receive the best possible experience and has had a positive impact on the performance or efficiency of the business.

Recognising excellence in a conservation, restoration or renovation application, for this award the judges are looking for a heritage joinery project that demonstrates excellence in woodworking/joinery, and evidence that the company contributed to the conservation, restoration or renovation of a heritage project.

This award recognises outstanding projects, initiatives or individuals that demonstrate a commitment to improving the company’s environmental sustainability performance. The judges are looking for organisations or individuals that have identified and secured lasting sustainability improvements, demonstrated through evidence that sustainable environmental improvements have been made, and committed to continually improving sustainability through clear processes.

Celebrates the achievements of all apprentices within the woodworking businesses. The judges are looking for quality of work to agreed quality targets and standards, a safety-first attitude and extraordinary commitment that has added value to the apprentice’s place of work.